'Mom' sales neglects all other caregivers

This weekend I went to the Mom-to-Mom Sale at Pennfield Middle School and got some really great deals.

As an expecting parent, I was very excited to get so much baby gear so cheap.

However, as an expecting father, I found the idea that I was somehow bucking the norm by being a male-identified person at an event which exclusively names mothers as being the target participants, disconcerting.

Although I was in the extreme minority, there were other men shopping along side me.

So I must ask: Why are these events still called mom-to-mom sales?

Why are they not parent-to-parent sales?

Or even caregiver-to-caregiver sales?

Okay, the last one is a mouthful, but you get my point.

In a world where we increasingly call upon egalitarian co-parenting, why do we still insist that only mothers can shop for deals on second-hand items for their children?

Nathan Grajek

Battle Creek

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'Mom' sales neglects all other caregivers

This weekend I went to the Mom-to-Mom Sale at Pennfield Middle School and got some really great deals.